1876.] 



AND HORTIGULTURIST. 



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one in a thousand who saw and admired the 

 Waterer collection know now that the Messrs 

 Parsons had any at all on the grounds. It is 

 pleasant to be able to saj' that, notwithstanding 

 the immense disadvantage the Ameri(;an Rhodo- 

 dendron firms were placed under, we have not 

 heard one word of complaint from the Messrs. 

 Parsons — nothing but pleasure that our English 

 friends who came so far with their productions 

 should be treated so well. 



It was our intention to do these excellent 

 firms some justice bj- making notes of their 

 good things. On getting to their department w'e 

 were astonished at being ordered away by the 

 guards, and we found by further experiment that 

 this was the "law." We made an effort to ex- 

 amine the collection of Messrs. Hoopes, the 

 Roses of _ Mr. Buist, the Geraniums of Peter 

 Henderson, and finally the Arboretum planted 

 by the writer of this, and was ordered away 

 from all! On suggesting to the official seraph, 

 who held the flaming sword at the gate, that 

 surely one had a right to enter his own Eden, 

 we were told that he " was not supposed to know 

 exhibitors from other people." But we were 

 fighting, rather for "other people" than our- 

 selves. We addressed a letter to Director Gen- 

 eral Goshorn, pointing out that the exhibitors in 

 the open ground planted ihdr allotmpnts for peo- 

 ple to examine the varieties, and not as mere 

 masses of flowers and foliage for the landscape 

 adornment of the Centennial grounds, and ex- 

 pressing a hope that the wrong would be reme- 

 died. We had not the honor of a reply from 

 any one in authority, but just as we go t(5 press 

 with this find by experience that the guards 

 have been withdrawn, and that the public no\v 

 are as free to examine the Horticultural collec- 

 tions as any other on the grounds. 



These remarks are necessary in order to ex- 

 plain to our readers why we are unable to give 

 any account of the out-door flowers, and to cor- 

 rect the impression carried naturally through 

 the country by those Horticulturists who during 

 the first month were ordered away, that the 

 collections can only be seen from a distance 

 varying from 10 to 50 feet off". Thi-i difficulty 

 does not exist now, and we hope to have a clear 

 field for reporting in the future. Any one can go 

 on the grass to examine the collections. 



International Exhibition — Pomological Re- 

 port. — We have the pleasure of giving to our 

 readers the following, the first report on any- 



thing exhibited at the great Exhibition, so far as 

 we are aware. 



Phtladelphia, May 25, 1876. 



Hon. a. T. Goshorn, Director General U. S. 



Centennial Commission. 



Sir : — In consequence of the Pomological 

 Board of International Judges not being at this 

 date completely organized, and the temporary 

 exhibit of Fruits presenting points of great 

 merit, we have been invited by Mr. Burnet 

 Landreth, Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, 

 to examine it, and do most respectfully submit 

 the following report. 



The exhibit embraces Lemons from Messrs. 

 Vicari &. Spragusa, of Milazzo, Italy, very fine 

 and of extraordinary size. Onions, Potatoes and 

 Tomatoes from Bermuda, exhibited by J. C. 

 McNaughton, of Philadelphia, the two former 

 remarkably fine productions, the latter small 

 and wrinkled, but valuable for their earliness. 

 Two hundred varieties of Potatoes from Messrs. 

 Bliss & Son., of New York, embracing every 

 known kind of value. 



A collection of Roots for feeding cattle from 

 Messrs. D. Landreth and Sons, comprising a 

 great variety of Beets, Mangolds and Carrots, 

 showing how well these can be preserved far 

 into a new season by pitting. 



A few Apples and Potatoes, from Geo. A. Foote, 



of , the best of the popular variety 



Peerless. A very good collection of Apples 

 from the Iowa State Horticultural Society. 



Remarkably well kept Apples, from the fruit- 

 house of N. Hellings & Bro., of Battle Creek, 

 Michigan, and a superior collection from the 

 Michigan State Horticultural Society, embracing 

 forty varieties of kinds that have been kept in 

 the ordinary farm-house cellar of some of the 

 members of the Society. As the season is very 

 late for good keeping Apples, the Committee 

 made notes of those varieties which seemed to 

 them meritorious, taking as a standard of char- 

 acter the actual condition of each variety with 

 the best known specimens of its own kind, as 

 well as of actual good quality. In the Iowa 

 collection they note as among them, Tewksbury 

 Winter Blu-sh, Ortley, Rawles Janet, Newtown 

 Pippins, Jonathan, Winesap, and two not well 

 known out of the West, Hoover and Minkler 

 as having much to recommend them. In the 

 collection of the Michigan Pomological Society, 

 the finest were the Roxhury Russet, Rock, Wil- 

 low Twig, Smith's Cider, Rhode Island Greening, 

 Jonathan, Fallowater, Esopus Spitzenberg, both 



